Comments on: US Congress Revives Cold War Tactics With New Anti-Communism School Curriculum

By: julia eden

julia eden — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:05:57 +0000

@james kaye:
yanis varoufakis, former finance minister of greece,
titled his latest book “techno-feudalism”. to the point.
and quite a number of underlings love their chains.
which is the system’s point: if you love your chains,
you do not feel the need to break them.
with all the proxy wars & environmental destruction
going on, their might not be time to do so, anyway …

By: J Anthony

J Anthony — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:49:15 +0000

In reply to Steve. That is indeed the question. Most USAmericans are either unable, or unwilling, to accept that they live in the belly of the beast. The corporate state is regressing politically, determined to take the whole world down with it and it seems it's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. I would like for this not to be the case as much as anyone else, but you take a good look around and it's like "Hope? What hope?"

By: firstpersoninfinite

firstpersoninfinite — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:58:21 +0000

Is it Communism that gave the citizens of the U.S. a predatory health care system? Is it Communism that drives our military and governmental agencies to subdue, transfigure or mollify by direct murder so many Muslim nations? Is it Communism that created a surveillance chain of governmental agencies and social media empires to connect the dots leading to each of our probable future detentions inside our own borders? Is it Communism that is erasing the same Constitution which our elected leaders are sworn to uphold, and yet are willing to sell (along with our rights) to the highest bidder? If China is the problem, why did the US invite them to join the WTO in 1998? There are many reasons for all our problems in the US, but Communism would be, by default and by definition, at the very bottom of the list. This whole argument blaming Communism for the problems which our own government refuses to be accountable for is just authoritarianism, pure and simple. If the bloodless corpse of Goebbels rises up and is given a 24 hour news show, I guess that would be Communist infiltration also.

By: Gary McMillan

Gary McMillan — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:10:17 +0000

It should be obvious that capitalist banking practices are destroying the value of the currency making everything unaffordable. But inflation is blamed on everything but Capitalism when it IS Capitalism that causes inflation by the billions in loans that all require the “interest” be added to the cash value of the product of the loan. Inflation consequently causes the devaluation of the currency. This legislation ignores the main cause of inflation like every other rant about inflation in its attempt to defend capitalism.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:53:07 +0000

America has learned nothing and is hastening its demise with its demented policies.
China and Russian are not ‘communist’, in the McCarthy sense, anymore. They have learned and moved on.
America, and the west in general, cannot comprehend a world where there is no war and the government(s) actually use its monies to help the country and all its peoples.
When will ‘the people’ finally figure out who their real enemy is ?

By: James and Helga Fellay

James and Helga Fellay — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:26:19 +0000

In reply to James Keye. I agree with you. I have felt for some time now that we are entering a new epoch of neo-feudalism in the West.

By: James Keye

James Keye — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:19:33 +0000

McCarthyism!…not only in the 1950s. I had to sign away my rights to free speech and thought in the 1960s to get student aid at university in Florida.

Reading through the comments, I cannot share the view that such a bill and its consequences are some last ditch effort of the plutocracy to retain power and control; it seems to me that the geopolitical world is moving rapidly toward a neo-feudalism of the most dramatic kind. Such a condition might be lived through and overcome if there was a stable supporting biophysical environmental substrate, but every action of the oligarchy, and now almost every effective action in support of social values, end up challenging environmental stability, further exacerbating the confusion and disorganization of the people and empowering and speeding a neo-feudal agenda….and running this iteration of the living experiment out of time.

By: RICK BOETTGER

RICK BOETTGER — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:53:06 +0000

Another false basis for the insane war in Ukraine aginst “communist” Putin?

By: mgr

mgr — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:34:47 +0000

Neoliberal economic and political policies do not benefit ordinary people. They are just a means for moving wealth from the ordinary people who create it to the elitists who hoard it. Of course, for people like Salazar, it’s all a communist plot rather than simple thievery. Seems like the insanity genie has escaped the bottle and is now running free. The rest of the world had better stand out of the way while the accumulated bullshit in the US and Western countries drowns them. Perhaps we’re approaching our “Old Yeller” moment.

By: Robert Patterson

Robert Patterson — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:43:35 +0000

“let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution.”